Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories X-Face: I-*}xvwusAv%MlABo'jVNP7TDXf5bb*L[q,r{DnsR1GoL07^Wf)sAu%>!LjXAFlZZN+`OQu }?#du]C)[*%ERKR#+l#sX'EoNbSO~|.x AT ogoS5|"-u? Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:08:17 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 59 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Hi I just recently discovered the following behaviour of ls: When I type in ls in the same directory a couple of times, sometimes the first ls call shows some of the directories with 0 bytes and in the next calls with an actual byte number as you can see below. Anybody else seeing this ? This is the same on NT or W2K, with netsec enabled ot ntea enabled. vzell:/c> type ll ll is aliased to `ls -lat --show-control-chars' vzell:/c> ll ls: pagefile.sys: Permission denied total 489 drwxr-xr-x 7 vzell admin 0 May 23 12:45 tmp/ <-- 0 Bytes drwxr-xr-x 8 vzell admin 0 May 23 11:59 temp/ <-- 0 Bytes drwxr-xr-x 28 vzell admin 24576 May 21 01:05 WINNT/ -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 276344 May 20 19:08 Tree.Far drwxr-xr-x 20 vzell admin 4096 May 16 11:36 Programme/ drwxr-xr-x 13 vzell admin 4096 May 16 11:36 oracle/ drwxr-xr-x 10 vzell admin 4096 Feb 14 17:56 gnu/ drwxr-xr-x 4 vzell admin 0 Jun 13 2001 xircom/ drwxr-xr-x 2 vzell admin 0 Jun 4 2001 bin/ <-- 0 Bytes drwxr-xr-x 3 vzell admin 0 Dec 29 2000 RECYCLER/ drwxr-xr-x 9 vzell admin 0 Nov 29 2000 MSOffice/ -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 26816 Jun 28 2000 NTDETECT.COM -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 158160 Jun 28 2000 ntldr -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 289 Jun 28 2000 boot.ini drwxr-xr-x 2 vzell admin 0 Jun 28 2000 RECYCLED/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 AUTOEXEC.BAT* -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 CONFIG.SYS -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 IO.SYS -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 MSDOS.SYS vzell:/c> ll ls: pagefile.sys: Permission denied total 521 drwxr-xr-x 7 vzell admin 12288 May 23 12:45 tmp/ <-- xxx Bytes drwxr-xr-x 8 vzell admin 12288 May 23 11:59 temp/ <-- xxx Bytes drwxr-xr-x 28 vzell admin 24576 May 21 01:05 WINNT/ -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 276344 May 20 19:08 Tree.Far drwxr-xr-x 20 vzell admin 4096 May 16 11:36 Programme/ drwxr-xr-x 13 vzell admin 4096 May 16 11:36 oracle/ drwxr-xr-x 10 vzell admin 4096 Feb 14 17:56 gnu/ drwxr-xr-x 4 vzell admin 0 Jun 13 2001 xircom/ <-- 0 Bytes even so there are files in the directory drwxr-xr-x 2 vzell admin 4096 Jun 4 2001 bin/ <-- xxx Bytes drwxr-xr-x 3 vzell admin 0 Dec 29 2000 RECYCLER/ drwxr-xr-x 9 vzell admin 4096 Nov 29 2000 MSOffice/ -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 26816 Jun 28 2000 NTDETECT.COM -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 158160 Jun 28 2000 ntldr -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 289 Jun 28 2000 boot.ini drwxr-xr-x 2 vzell admin 0 Jun 28 2000 RECYCLED/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 AUTOEXEC.BAT* -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 CONFIG.SYS -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 IO.SYS -r--r--r-- 1 vzell admin 0 Jun 27 2000 MSDOS.SYS Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/